.... asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera”(16) was one example of Holden in yet another unnecessary lie. Holden was definitely not someone that you could depend on. Holden’s actions were also peculiar. He would always act like a tough guy but he really was very scared. The incident with Maurice the pimp and Sunny the Prostitute is one example. He is very nervous about having a prostitute but he tries to act normal about it. From the time Maurice asks him if he’s “innarested in a little tail t’night?”(91) he feels uncomfortable but he still gets the prostitute. He then tries to act tough when Maurice is asking for five mor ....

.... to kill a mockingbird." This passage is where she got the name for her book. During the 1950's in the small county of Maycomb, the mentality of most southern people reflected that of the nation. Most of the people were racist. In the novel, these ideas are explored through a young girl by the name of Scout. The readers see the events that occur through her eyes. The novel centers on the trial of Tom Robinson. To the people of Maycomb County, Tom Robinson is just a "sorry nigger," who committed an unthinkable crime. Tom represents the black race in American society. He is a victim of racism, which was the major controversy in our culture during that time. Like Boo R ....

.... that Jim called him “de bes’ fren’ I ever had;…de on’y white genlman dat ever kep’ his promise to ole Jim.”(Pg.87) Huck realizes that he can not turn Jim in since they both act as runaway outcasts on the river. The support they have for each other sprouts friendship. The events that Huck comes in contact with carry a certain sequential order. Huck started off despising the Widow’s rules, and when his Pap kidnaps him, he has no interest in returning. The juxtaposed thoughts in Pap’s mind, money and education, make him feel unworthy to Huck. Since Pap has neither quality, he does not want Huck to accelerate him in anyway. His father’s frantic ....

.... pieces is unsettling. In both instances, though, the reader is left with a much more absorbing story; one in which the reader is, in fact, a main character. With the exception of "My Old Man", which is entirely in the first person , and "On the Quai at Smyrna", which is only possibly in the first person, there is just one instance in In Our Time in which a character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story which completely immerses the reader in the actions and thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundin ....

.... adults. Throughout the genre of First Love, Vladimir was shown to be completely swooped up in overwhelming emotion for Zinaida. Vladimir was entranced with her beauty from the moment he first saw her, "I gazed at her, and how dear she already was to me , and how near. It seemed to me that I had known her for a long time, and that before her I had known nothing and had not lived…. (33)" Vladimir was in love at the first sight of her. He couldn't help himself from becoming infatuated with her because he didn't know the first thing about love. As the genre moves on, Vladimir's feelings for Zinaida became deeper and deeper. Vladimir thought to himself: I felt weary ....

.... to Laius and Iocaste, the King and Queen of Thebes. It was prophesied by an Oracle that when Oedipus grew up he would kill his father, marry his mother, and father her children. Fearing this, Iocaste and Laius pierce the child's ankles and leave him on a hillside to die. Unknown to them, a messenger finds Oedipus and nurses him back to health. Eventually, Oedipus is adopted by the King and Queen of Colonus. When he grows up, unknowing of his adoption, he discovers his doomed fate from an Oracle. Seeking to escape it, he flees from Colonus. Once upon the road, Oedipus discovers his path blocked by a man, whom he perceives to be a robber. He kills this man, who turns ....

.... two survivors’ accounts are portrayed throughout as Art records his father’s memories in a series of oral interviews: Vladek’s courtship of the wealthy Anja, the marriage that facilitated his rise in the business world of the Jewish community of Sosnowiec, his times in the Polish Army and capture by the Nazis in 1939, and his release and return. Vladek tells about how the Nazis policies of extermination were put into practice. The concentration camps began to fill; yet Vladek and Anja manage to survive using strategies, and blind luck, until they are caught and sent to Auschwitz. “We had to make for ourselves “bunkers,” places to hide” (Spiegelman, pg. 110) ....

.... insane asylum and is worried sick about something happening to Jonathan Harker. Mina hides all that she feels when Jonathan Harker is near her. All that Mina is feeling is written by herself, and what, how she is feeling is ready for a reader to examine because they are able to see her diary. If Mina's diary was not open to the reader, or if Someone was telling of what he or she saw, the observation could be false and the reader would lose valuable information that would be valuable to the whole plot of the book. Some things that can be noticed about the diary form is that different views of the same thing can be expressed by many different people; all in first per ....